Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[youngoldbloke]

No plastic lids anymore on tubs of cottage cheese - just foil. Easily damaged in your trolley, and no cover when opened in the fridge. Cling film or foil is just a PITA. I've got a few lids I kept and reuse but they won't last forever.

 

[DCBassman]

...which is another thing that annoys me: the lack of plug sockets in Victorian houses. didn't they have forward thinking in them days?!

I live in a 70s flat. Lounge had a single and two doubles. Used converters, now have a double, a triple, and a quad. Bedroom also had two singles, now two doubles. Not long after we moved in, the kitchen was fully refurbished, so made sure they put lots of sockets in.
But being computery, it's not enough!

 

[Alex321]

I live in a 70s flat. Lounge had a single and two doubles. Used converters, now have a double, a triple, and a quad. Bedroom also had two singles, now two doubles. Not long after we moved in, the kitchen was fully refurbished, so made sure they put lots of sockets in.
But being computery, it's not enough!

Sockets are like bikes. Always need n+1

 

[youngoldbloke]

New house, 6 double sockets in the room I'm in, but in the wrong places. Can't win

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

No plastic lids anymore on tubs of cottage cheese - just foil. Easily damaged in your trolley, and no cover when opened in the fridge. Cling film or foil is just a PITA. I've got a few lids I kept and reuse but they won't last forever.

But .... you've just used less single use plastic, which is a good thing.

 

[matticus]

<No plastic lids anymore on tubs of cottage cheese*>
...

But .... you've just used less single use plastic, which is a good thing.

Yes, it's a good pollution win overall. A minor annoyance, I agree, so very suitable for this thread

(*we do it with yoghurt pots - I thought they would never clip-on nicely at the till - what with being tatty, and almost certainly not all a standard size - but they almost always do. Which is nice.)

 

[youngoldbloke]

But .... you've just used less single use plastic, which is a good thing.

... but, when my lids are unusable, the non recyclable foil or clingfilm won't be a good thing. Different brands have slightly different diameter tubs, one size lid doesn't fit all. How about shops selling substantial multi use use lids to fit their containers so that products can be stored safely?

 

[newfhouse]

How about shops selling substantial multi use use lids to fit their containers so that products can be stored safely?

https://stretchylids.co.uk/

Cheaper alternatives are also available but these ones seem to survive washing and microwaving very well.

 

[mistyoptic]

https://stretchylids.co.uk/
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Cheaper alternatives are also available but these ones seem to survive washing and microwaving very well.

This. ^

We’ve also purchased silicone lids from ikea and elsewhere which seal a bowl well. Our use of cling film has fallen enormously

 

[glasgowcyclist]

https://stretchylids.co.uk/
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Cheaper alternatives are also available but these ones seem to survive washing and microwaving very well.

We've got two sets of those, one clear and one blue. They're pretty good

 

[Chief Broom]

Companies [tesco's today] that say 'contact us' and a phone number. There is no 'contact' because its just another menu of FAQ's leading in a circle. So does 'contact us' now mean the exact opposite in this ****ing Orwellian nightmare!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The modern school run. Stop driving your sprogs to school, teach them that they have legs.

 

[figbat]

The modern school run. Stop driving your sprogs to school, teach them that they have legs.

I live in a village and the school is 8 miles away - I'll shove them out the door at around 05:30 and expect to see them around 20:00.

 

[Chislenko]

I live in a village and the school is 8 miles away - I'll shove them out the door at around 05:30 and expect to see them around 20:00.

I think Ming was more referring to the sort of people who live in our village who get a bloo-y big 4x4 out to take the overweight kids 300 yards to school.

 

[figbat]

Other people's spreadsheets.

Some people use weird ways of putting lookups and simple summations together, plus I really hate when people format text (in any type of file) by using spaces and tabs rather than using the various alignment tools. You find you can't sum a spreadsheet apparently full of numbers because there are spaces in the cell, rendering them as text cells.